Michael J. Serra

1.1k total citations
35 papers, 800 citations indexed

About

Michael J. Serra is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael J. Serra has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 800 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael J. Serra's work include Memory Processes and Influences (20 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (10 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers). Michael J. Serra is often cited by papers focused on Memory Processes and Influences (20 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (10 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers). Michael J. Serra collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. Michael J. Serra's co-authors include John Dunlosky, Janet Metcalfe, Kenneth G. DeMarree, Robert Ariel, Greg Matvey, Katherine A. Rawson, Neil H. Schwartz, Susanne Narciss, Christopher Hertzog and Tyler Davis and has published in prestigious journals such as NeuroImage, Psychological Science and Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Michael J. Serra

34 papers receiving 770 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael J. Serra United States 14 446 429 309 160 114 35 800
Robert Ariel United States 15 325 0.7× 478 1.1× 292 0.9× 77 0.5× 138 1.2× 20 735
Chunliang Yang China 15 330 0.7× 491 1.1× 261 0.8× 101 0.6× 169 1.5× 48 729
Jonathan G. Tullis United States 16 407 0.9× 536 1.2× 260 0.8× 218 1.4× 233 2.0× 31 1.0k
Jason R. Finley United States 15 251 0.6× 366 0.9× 199 0.6× 97 0.6× 141 1.2× 28 655
Mariëtte H. van Loon Switzerland 16 415 0.9× 169 0.4× 196 0.6× 190 1.2× 85 0.7× 28 597
Marissa K. Hartwig United States 10 423 0.9× 203 0.5× 239 0.8× 255 1.6× 134 1.2× 15 679
Judith Schweppe Germany 17 331 0.7× 359 0.8× 436 1.4× 122 0.8× 144 1.3× 40 834
Mark C. Fox United States 8 173 0.4× 178 0.4× 160 0.5× 63 0.4× 62 0.5× 10 488
R. Jacob Leonesio United States 8 377 0.8× 554 1.3× 270 0.9× 59 0.4× 219 1.9× 12 856
Janell R. Blunt United States 12 618 1.4× 546 1.3× 311 1.0× 339 2.1× 232 2.0× 14 1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael J. Serra

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Serra, Michael J., et al.. (2025). Individual differences in mental imagery do not moderate the animacy advantage in memory. Journal of Memory and Language. 143. 104638–104638. 1 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J., et al.. (2025). The Use of Retrieval Practice in the Health Professions: A State-of-the-Art Review. Behavioral Sciences. 15(7). 974–974. 1 indexed citations
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McLaughlin, Bryan, et al.. (2024). Living in a (Mediated) Political World: Mindfulness, Problematic News Consumption, and Political Hostility. Communication Research. 53(1). 3–32. 2 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J., et al.. (2023). Getting Lost In The “Realm Of Possibility”: Common Phrases Used To Communicate Rare Events Have Substantially Different Effects On Decision-Making. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 6(2). 30–52.
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Serra, Michael J., et al.. (2023). Blocked Presentation Leads Participants to Overutilize Domain Familiarity as a Cue for Judgments of Learning (JOLs). Journal of Intelligence. 11(7). 142–142. 1 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J., et al.. (2023). The animacy advantage in memory occurs under self-paced study conditions, but participants’ metacognitive beliefs can deter it. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1164038–1164038. 2 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J., et al.. (2022). Within-pair factors might explain the inconsistent effects of animacy on paired-associates recall. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 30(2). 688–699. 4 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J.. (2021). Animate and Inanimate Words Demonstrate Equivalent Retrieval Dynamics Despite the Occurrence of the Animacy Advantage. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 661451–661451. 10 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J., et al.. (2020). The most fluent instructors might choreograph for Beyoncé or secretly be Batman: Commentary on Carpenter, Witherby, and Tauber.. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 9(2). 175–180. 5 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J., et al.. (2019). Forget framing might involve the assumption of mastery, but probably does not activate the notion of forgetting.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 46(12). 2384–2396. 2 indexed citations
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Walden, Eric, et al.. (2018). Rule activation and ventromedial prefrontal engagement support accurate stopping in self-paced learning. NeuroImage. 172. 415–426. 10 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J., et al.. (2017). Framing affects scale usage for judgments of learning, not confidence in memory.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 43(12). 1898–1908. 10 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J. & Kenneth G. DeMarree. (2016). Unskilled and unaware in the classroom: College students’ desired grades predict their biased grade predictions. Memory & Cognition. 44(7). 1127–1137. 78 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J., et al.. (2015). Adaptive memory: Animacy enhances free recall but impairs cued recall.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 42(2). 186–201. 49 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J., et al.. (2014). Examining competing hypotheses for the effects of diagrams on recall for text. Memory & Cognition. 43(1). 70–84. 6 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J., et al.. (2013). Domain familiarity as a cue for judgments of learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 21(2). 445–453. 31 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J. & John Dunlosky. (2010). Metacomprehension judgements reflect the belief that diagrams improve learning from text. Memory. 18(7). 698–711. 94 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J.. (2010). Diagrams increase the recall of nondepicted text when understanding is also increased. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 17(1). 112–116. 5 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J., John Dunlosky, & Christopher Hertzog. (2008). Do Older Adults Show Less Confidence in Their Monitoring of Learning?. Experimental Aging Research. 34(4). 379–391. 21 indexed citations
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Serra, Michael J., et al.. (2006). Trans-Iliac Removal of Bullet Fragments From the Sacroiliac Joint. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. 20(1). 52–55. 12 indexed citations

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